Implementing Coastal and Marine Natura 2000 - The new INTERREG MED Programme 2014-2020 Marseille, 23 June 2015
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The new INTERREG MED Programme 2014-2020
Marseille, 23 June 2015
Implementing
Coastal and Marine Natura 2000
Fotios Papoulias
European Commission
DG ENVIRONMENT, Nature unit
EU Biodiversity Strategy
Target 1 - Nature conservation
To halt the deterioration in the status of all species and habitats
covered by EU nature legislation and achieve a significant and
measurable improvement in their status by 2020
• Complete the establishment of the Natura 2000 network, incl.
in the marine part, and ensure good management
• Ensure adequate financing of Natura 2000 sites
• Increase stakeholder awareness and involvement and improve
enforcement
• Improve and streamline monitoring and reporting
Marine Natura 2000 – state of play • Out of 27 384 sites 3 024 are marine, 318133 km² (>5% of seas) • Marine N2000 significantly contributes to reaching the Aichi target and establishing coherent and representative network of MPAs (MSFD) • Progress • Differences across regions • Offshore gap
N2000 (% MS national seas)
Coastal zones protected by Natura
2000
• The Habitats directive protects a
big range of coastal habitats
(e.g. tidal areas, salt marhes and
meadows, sand dunes)
• More than 15% of the coastal
zone (landwards and seawards)
of Europe is part of the Natura
2000 network
• Coastal habitats are among the
most vulnerable to CC
The Mediterranean
• 170 designated MPAs 4.56% of the Mediterranean sea total area
• 507 Natura 2000 sites
(1.08% without Pelagos sanctuary)
• 4 Fisheries Restricted Areas (GFCM)
• Zones of deep-sea trawling ban
www.mapamed.org
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Economic benefits of Natura 2000
MPAs can offer the full range of ecosystem services
• Provisioning: Food: Support to overexploited fish stocks
• Regulating: climate regulation (carbon storage and
sequestration)
• Regulating: natural hazards control / mitigation
• Cultural: recreation and ecotourism
e.g. benefit to fish stocks (current N2000 coverage): 1,4-1,5 billion €/year
10% coverage: 3-3,2 billion €/year
Overall benefits: 200-300 billion €/year
Economic benefits of Natura 2000 - Tourism
• It is estimated that the expenditure supported by visitors to
Natura 2000 sites is around €50–85 billion/year (in 2006).
• If only expenditure of those visitors who have affinity for Natura
2000 designation (as opposed to natural areas in general): €9–20
billion/year in 2006, generated by around 350 million visitor days.
• The total expenditure provided by tourism and recreation supports
between 4.5 and 8 million Full Time Employment (FTE) jobs.
• The benefits generated by the visitors with affinity to Natura 2000
would support from 800,000 to 2 million FTE jobs.
• This compares to a total of about 13 million FTE jobs in the
tourism sector within the EU27 (in 2008).
• Protected areas can provide additional benefits to the local and
regional economy, by attracting inward investment and enhancing
local image and quality of life.
State of Nature report
Conservation status and trends according to
marine biogeographical region
Species
HabitatsState of Nature report Pressures and threats on marine ecosystems
Status of habitats and species - assessment: 2007-2012 *Posidonia oceanica meadows
Coastal lagoons
Tursiops truncatus
Caretta caretta
Challenges • Increased pressures: marine traffic and port development, pollution, invasive species • New energy/resource extraction projects, increased disturbance on all ecosystem levels • Implementation of the new Common Fisheries Policy • Joint recommendations of fisheries measures in N2000 • Opportunities for funding under the new EMFF
Management Regime for Natura
2000
Based on cooperation and partnershipManagement of N2000 - priorities • SCI SAC • Setting conservation objectives • Application of conservation measures • Management plans • Legal, statutory or contractual arrangements • Full stakeholder engagement and better regional cooperation EC guidance documents (N2000 and aquaculture/fisheries/energy,...) Economic benefits/win-win solutions and examples of good practice Biogeographical management seminars
SOLUTIONS • Full implementation of EU policies, strategies, regional sea conventions and initiatives, such as: Biodiversity Strategy, Barcelona convention, EU Strategy for the Adriatic and Ionian Region • Policy integration (ecosystem approach): MSFD/BHD/WFD, MSP, ICZM, joint measures and adaptive management, cultural heritage • Financing: 2014-2020 programming period, LIFE,... • Working at Biogeographical level: a process to promote the sharing of experience, good practice and cross-border collaboration on the management of Natura 2000. .
Mediterranean Biogeographical Seminar
• Mediterranean coastal habitats
- Threats and pressures (e.g. eutrophication, pollution,
unregulated anchoring, urbanisation, unsustainable recreation, IAS)
- Measures and solutions (e.g. large scale Posidonia monitoring,
multifunctional zones around lagoons, labelling shemes)
- Actions (e.g. training, conferences and workshops, guidelinesMarine Biogeographical Seminar
• Setting conservation objectives
• Habitats, highly mobile species
• Marine activities
• Threats & pressures from fisheries
• Measures for fisheries
• Other marine sectors
• Regional integration
• Cross-border collaboration
• Regional networks
• EU financingEEA
Thank you for your attention More information on our internet site: http://ec.europa.eu/environment/nature/index_en.htm http://ec.europa.eu/environment/nature/natura2000/marine/index_en.ht m
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